Photo Montage

  • photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
  • Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
  • Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
  • Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism
The Right to Copy – Disphotic
Raoul Haussman -THE RIGHT TO COPY 1931
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer  Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany – Smarthistory
Hannah Hoch – cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany 1919
John Heartfield | Mimikry | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Heartfield – Mimikry1934
Aleksandr Rodchenko. Rechevik. Stikhi (Orator. Verse). 1929 | MoMA
Aleksander Rodchenko – Rechevik. Stikhi (Orator. Verse)1929
El Lissitzky - Monoskop
El Lissitzky – Proun 99 1924

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